MRO & Production

Boeing and Mubadala Aerospace announced a 10-year direct contract for Strata Manufacturing, Mubadala Aerospace’s advanced composite aerostructures facility in Al Ain, to produce commercial composite aerostructures for the 777 and 787 Dreamliner. In addition, the companies announced a strategic agreement that positions Strata to be a future supplier of the vertical fin for the Dreamliner,

Liebherr-Aerospace will supply the AW189 program of helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland with the landing gear, flight control and environmental control system. All three are highly integrated, latest generation systems that have been designed and developed to efficiently support the helicopter’s highly demanding operational requirements. The flight control and landing gear systems are designed, tested and manufactured

AeroTurbine has been selected by Moog to provide global logistics support for Moog’s Total Support and Asset Support Programs on the following new platforms: B787, B747-800 and A350XWB. The agreement includes 24/7/365 warehousing to support Moog’s global pool support customers. Initial support locations include Miami, Los Angles, Singapore, Beijing, Melbourne, Sydney, London and Dubai, with

ST Aerospace announced that it has secured about $540m worth of new contracts in the first quarter of 2012. These contracts for Aircraft Maintenance and Modification, Component Total Support, and Engine Total Support businesses will be carried out at its global maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) network. Specifically for passenger-to-freighter (PTF) conversions, ST Aerospace secured

Defence and security company Saab has received a contract extension from Airbus, for the A320-family Aileron for the life of this programme. Based on the current Airbus order backlog for the A320-family the initial contract is valued at 701 MSEK. Further Airbus sales will lead to additional orders and thereby increase the total contract value.

FL Technics, a global provider of fully integrated aircraft technical maintenance services, is set to open 7 new line maintenance stations across Europe, the CIS and Asia-Pacific. The range of services offered in all 7 new line maintenance stations will extend to on-call maintenance, pre-flight, daily, weekly checks and component replacements, inspections and repairs. The

Finnair and SR Technics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, according to which Finnair will in the future source engine and component services for its aircraft from SR Technics. Finnair expects the cooperation to result in significant cost savings for the company. The planned cooperation is a part of Finnair’s transformation program started in August

GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. has received authorization from the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) to provide conventional and electrostatic painting, weighing and recalibration services for other companies’ aircraft in its Maintenance Center in Confins, Belo Horizonte. The agency’s authorization, which also represents a new revenue source, covers Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 Next Generation aircraft,